A Bee's Tale

This morning when I opened the windows in my house, I learned something very profound. In our house, we have the kind of windows that you crank open and the glass opens away from the house. At night, when we close them, sometimes, because it’s too dark to see, a flying insect of some kind gets trapped in between the glass and the screen, and must wait until morning to be freed.

Well, this morning I opened one of the windows in the dining room, and realized that a bee had gotten caught in it the night before. It was flying everywhere it could along the glass the find an opening, but as I opened the window so that it could be free, it still fought against the glass. I figured it needed a minute to realize it was free, so I continued opening the rest of the windows. When I was done, I came back to that first window, and there was the bee, still pushing against the glass even though the window was open and it was already free.

 I thought about this for a while, because there’s a lot of truth in what I just witnessed. Many times, people (myself included) don’t know how much freedom we really have. We push against our circumstances thinking it’s the only way out, when in fact, there’s freedom within our grasp, if we’d just change our direction slightly. Call it a waking dream, or call it an epiphany, or call it a person reading way too much into an insect’s reality; either way, I encourage you to consider the event and how it relates to your life. What circumstance are you giving in to, because you feel like there’s just no other way? What’s stopping you from a life worth living?